Quote Originally Posted by Dakkon3 View Post
You're right I haven't experienced endgame in FF14. I'm just extrapolating from the situation as it is in world of warcraft which is where I came from.

Perhaps the 14 community is more chill about this stuff and it won't go in that direction.
With all due respect, you shouldn't make predictions for a community you have absolutely no experience with. Extrapolating from some other game that did things this other way is an approach which spreads a lot of misconceptions and prejudices.
And we already have enough of it with people stating that addons would play the game for us or that people are cheating their way through ultimate clears or that people who use ACT are toxic elitists and just want to yell and scream obsceneties at everyone.

Yes, there are things that should get the user banned the moment it is discovered like auto-targeting people below 50% HP on NIN in PvP and there is a very good reason you don't find these things on regular plugin sites like github because they make to filter the resources they provide and nobody here or in any other addon thread has ever condoned the use of these types of addons.
But acting like a countdown plugin that shows every second of a countdown from the start is somehow getting them an ultimate clear is ridiculous and ignorant.
And addons have been part of this game for many, many years. No static I've ever been in, from casual to hardcore, has ever required me to use any of those. As long as one person can upload logs for analysis it was enough and some statics don't even do that.